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Ben Foxall

@benfoxall.bsky.social
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I love the web, data, spatial, robotics and hacks. Prev, Robot Web at Wayve 🫶 🤖 🚗

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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Random hack - streaming video into a browser via the Gamepad API. 0.05 fps, incredibly low quality.
A web page showing a very low-quality image of a person celebrating.  Graphs and stats show a signal from a connected gamepad (the source of the image)
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I'm kind of obsessed with video & 3d space. Been building a drone flight viewer that shows captured video aligned with flight paths. flights.benjaminbenben.com
A grid of 3d flight paths of a drone, with volumes aligned with the path to show when video was captured.A drone video playback window with an overlayed 3d model showing where the drone was when it captured
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
@alexlizhill.com every few years I get in a conversation about Pull Requests and end up directing people to your Lead Dev 2018 talk. It just happened again, so thanks!
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
So @github.com copilot decided to extract some secrets into a plain markdown file which it committed to my repo 😰
A screenshot of AGENTS.md, containing hard coded values for `TRACTIVE_TEST_EMAIL` & `TRACTIVE_TEST_PASSWORD`
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
We think our cat is being bullied 😿 (keep seeing her getting chased home by a stray cat). … I found an undocumented api for her location tracker (Tractive) and made some plots. Looks like she's been exploring way less over the last few weeks.
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
@remysharp.com I just came back to a page I was reading yesterday to see it replaced with your face bouncing around. Love it 📀
A small retro 1-bit picture of Remy on a large black background.  Bouncing around like the iconic DVD logo.
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I made an advent calendar with a picture of our cat each day 🐈. benjaminbenben.com/catlendar/
A web page (benjaminbenben.com/catlendar), showing an Advent Calendar - kind of like the paper ones you used to get where you open a door each day and see a new picture.

One of the doors is open and you can just make out a cat.
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I gave a talk last week about communication & data extraction with QR Codes. One thing clicked for me recently: When you scan a QR Code, you're _copying_ data from the physical world to your device. Was interesting to talk about performance & security with that in mind.
A screenshot of a slide deck.  The highlighted slide is titled "QR Codes are Data", with the content of “Scanning them copies that data to your device"
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Had some final stage interviews with a multi-billion dollar company this afternoon, managed to tell: → The CTO & Cofounder – It's my mum's birthday today → Head of Engineering – I went clubbing at the weekend and considered replying to an email at 1am, but didn't
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Now we're talking 😻
A graph-based AI image generation workflow.  Starting with a picture of a cat, then applying hairstyles to it.
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
… I guess this is technically what I asked for
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
It's getting to the time of year that people I met in the summer have started noticing that I always wear shorts
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I'm impressed with how straightforward it is to setup your own routing service with OSRM. (this instance finds walking directions around Dublin).
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I've been playing around with visualising Irish rail data benjaminbenben.com/trains/
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 16/10/2025
I dug into progressive image rendering and found a bunch of common assumptions aren't quite true. ➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari ➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive ➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't ➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF ⬇️ and more jakearchibald.com/2025/present...
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The present and potential future of progressive image rendering
Exploring progressive image rendering across JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL.
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
✨ New blog post: Using QR Codes to communicate with offline devices benjaminbenben.com/2025/08/19/o...
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Offline QR Codes
Have you tried using a QR Code for that?
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Blog post - video playback in 3d space benjaminbenben.com/2025/07/16/v...
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Video Space
Pose-aligned video tracking with WebGL
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Great to see him dropping some new tracks
Spotify notification: New album coming soon, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I'm going to play around with some drone footage I captured the other day. It's a 4 minute video around a place I camped a few nights ago, captured with a DJI Mini 4 Pro (which I love!)
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
So, this was scaring me a lot.
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I got a phishing attack which tried to steal my github credentials (slight coincidence, I'm implementing passkey auth at the moment)
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Getting ready to talk at DubSec tomorrow www.dubsec.ie
A screenshot of a presentation first slide: "Hello, I'm Ben ⚠️ not a security expert"
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I got nerd sniped by www.flaggle.net this morning
flaggle.net
Flaggle 🏁
Guess the flag! A Wordle-inspired game.
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Loved attending Dublin Dataviz yesterday (on my first day of living in Dublin 🎉). Great talk by @virt-arch.bsky.social sharing a wide range of interesting projects. Thanks to @rudi-data.bsky.social for organising and @thedigitalhub.bsky.social for the beautiful space 😍
The Digital Hub at the Digital Depot - a large open space, with Olly presenting slides to the attendees.
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This is an incredible project and beautifully detailed write up
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
It took me a bazillion hours to draft this email. Life update: I'll be leaving Wayve in a couple of weeks 😭
An email titled "Farewell", about my plans to leave Wayve.
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I've got a load of "field recordings" from an old trip. It's been great listening them back, but I've not found an intuitive way to explore or share them. Are there any tools/sites out there that I could use?
A screenshot of a Finder window, showing a directory of a large number of audio files with non-descriptive titles.
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
@peterjwest.bsky.social I loved coming across your PR onto every-uuid - looks like a really satisfying journey.
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Full UUID search by peterjwest · Pull Request #14 · nolenroyalty/every-uuid
This PR adds fully working search, as discussed here: #12 Huge thanks to @wangqr, this would not have been possible without them. Replaces the Feistal cipher with a random invertible matrix transfo...
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
This is beautiful. (and intense.. I'm glad you can ultimately make it "Into the Sea" 🧘‍♂️)
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Do you repost your own replies on Bluesky? (I'm new.) This one has nice screenshots 📊
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I've also managed to do some localisation based on the images (I think this is going to be an interesting basis for playing back device audio)
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
From #mkgn last week – photos of a QR code aligned together
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Ben Seymour @benseymour.com · 08/12/2024
Ben Foxall's talk on QR codes at #mkgn 50 this week was remarkable - creating a network-less local internet, using QR codes 🤯 One of the wildest and geekiest talks I've ever seen. youtu.be/mJnzN8pd8Gc?... (Filmed poorly by me, and shared with @benfoxall.bsky.social 's permission)
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MKGN Ben QR codes
YouTube video by Ben Seymour
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
👏 so many people appreciate this
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Had a fun time at Remote Hack this weekend ➡️ Generating audio spectrograms ➡️ Planning a ski trip ➡️ Giving people bad advice
remotehack.space
Remote Hack
A free, fully-remote hackday that happens on the last Saturday of every month. It's very informal and emphasises chill-hacks-ing over actually producing anything that fully works (though if you wanna ...
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Started printing some nice christmas decorations ❄️
A 3d print that hasn't worked; printhead has pulled up the first layer and dragged into a messy shape
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Ben Foxall @benfoxall.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
👋 hello
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